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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Four arrested for cheating telecom company

Four people accused of cheating telecommunication company Uninor of Rs.95 lakh have been arrested, police said Saturday.

Manoj Pahwa, 34, Varun Mittal, 23, Rahul Sharma, 33, and Nitin Sharma, 24, cheated the company - a joint venture of Norway-based Telenor and Indian firm Unitech - by fraudulent withdrawals using 13 cheques stolen from the company's office in Saket area of south Delhi, a police official said 'Signatures of the authorised signatory of the company were forged by them,' the police official said.The police have recovered around Rs.30 lakh and a kilogram of gold from the accused.